Besides being the local watering hole, Barrow Creek Hotel is noted
for the vast array of currency notes of all denominations which cover
its walls. The entry key to the historic Telegraph Station next door is
available from the hotel for visitors wishing to enter the historic
building.

The Overland Telegraph repeater station was built in 1872 beside a
spring. When the spring was fenced off, the local Aborigines killed two
of the station staff in retribution for being denied access to their
water supply. The whites retaliated with vengeance at Skull Creek,
killing up to 60 Aborigines.

When an old dingo trapper was killed by Aborigines on Coniston
Station in 1928, a posse led by Const. William George Murray killed an
estimated 70 Aborigines in a series of bloody reprisals. When Murray
was called to Darwin to explain his actions he was greeted like some
conquering hero. When asked why he had taken no prisoners he told the
Darwin court, 'What use is a wounded black feller a hundred miles from
civilization?' He was totally exonerated of all charges.